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Joan Crawford

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  • Grand Hotel
  • Grand Hotel review by from Belfast, N.Ireland
    Rated - 4 stars The Performance, the performance...the performance!! 14 November 2006
    ...listic, it's just meant to be fun. I also very much liked the performance of a Joan Crawford as the stenographer. Old films need to be watched and viewed in the context ...  
  • Johnny Guitar
  • Johnny Guitar review by A customer from Manchester, England
    Rated - 4 stars Gender and genre bender 25 May 2005
    ...mannered acting and 'artistic' direction (Nicholas Ray). Wonderful, especially Joan Crawford. ...  
  • Mildred Pierce
  • Mildred Pierce review by Savage from London, England
    Rated - 4 stars Sex and money 11 December 2006
    ...tyle in which he worked so often, and allies it to what appears to be a typical Joan Crawford, 'women's picture', plot, concerning a wronged wife who turns herself into a su...  

Joan Crawford - filmography


  • The Best of Everything (1959)
    Starring: Hope Lange,  Joan Crawford
    Director: Jean Negulesco
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Set in New York City during the 1950s, this melodrama follows the illicit affairs of several career women in the glamorous world of book-publishing. The women pay a heavy emotional price for their involvement with married men: one ends up pregnant and must make a difficult choice; another has a ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 7 members
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  • The Story of Esther Costello (1957)
    Starring: Joan Crawford,  Rossano Brazzi,  Heather Sears
    Director: David Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther's innocence ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 40% from 3 members
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  • Humoresque on DVD (1946)
    Starring: Joan Crawford,  John Garfield,  Oscar Levant
    Director: Jean Negulesco
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    'Humoresque' tells the romantically tragic story of neurotic but wealthy socialite Helen Wright (Joan Crawford), and her affair with young, ambitious musician Paul Boray (John Garfield).
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 138 members
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  • The Women (1939)
    Starring: Norma Shearer,  Joan Crawford,  Rosalind Russell
    Director: George Cukor
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A no-holds-barred comedy about the eternal battle of the sexes (both inter- and intragender) and starring Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer, THE WOMEN is based on the play by Clare Boothe Luce and is set in high-society 1930s New York. Although no men appear in the film, they are its primary subject ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 79% from 89 members
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  • Dancing Lady (1933)
    Starring: Joan Crawford,  Clark Gable,  Franchot Tone
    Director: Robert Z. Leonard
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Janie (Joan Crawford) lives to dance and will dance anywhere - even in a Burlesque theatre. Rich playboy Tod Newton (Franchot Tone) discovers her and lands her a part in a Broadway musical, directed by a friend of his, Patch Gallagher (Clark Gable). Tod thinks that he can get what he wants from ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
    Due for release on 26th April 2010
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  • Grand Hotel on DVD (1932)
    Starring: Greta Garbo,  John Barrymore,  Joan Crawford
    Director: Edmund Goulding
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The creme de la creme of MGM's pantheon gathers at the luxurious GRAND HOTEL, where "nothing ever happens." Greta Garbo is at her most radiant and poetic as the melancholy ballerina who finds a reason to dance again after she falls for the down-and-out Baron (John Barrymore) who planned to rob her. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 784 members
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  • Rain on DVD (1932)
    Starring: Joan Crawford,  Walter Huston,  William Gargan
    Director: Lewis Milestone
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    The story of a preacher who finds himself drawn to a prostitute during a sailing trip in the South Seas. The boat becomes stranded on the island of Pago Pago and this gives the preacher an opportunity to try to save her soul...
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 91 members
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  • The Unknown (1927)
    Starring: Lon Chaney,  Norman Kerry,  Joan Crawford
    Director: Tod Browning
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Alonzo is an apparently armless knife thrower who uses his feet to encircle Estrellita with blades. Zanzi is killed by Alonzo (who really does have arms). Estrellita allows herself to fall in love with Alonzo (she fears men's arms), so he goes to a hospital and has his amputated. Meantime Malabar ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 30 members
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  • Joan Crawford - Always The Star on DVD
    Starring: Joan Crawford
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    This glamorous and hugely popular actress raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work. During her fifty-year career, she made over eighty films. But her obsessive perfectionism led to the later caricature of coat-hanger-wielding harridan ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 2 members
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  • Rain to Watch Now (1932)
    Starring: Joan Crawford,  Walter Huston
    Director: Lewis Milestone
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
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    Run time: 92 minutes
    Prostitute Sadie Thomspon (Joan Crawford) is held in quarantine on Pago Pago island and whilst she is popular amongst the American troops stationed there, missionary Alfred Davidson makes it his business to make her life a living misery.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 3 members
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Joan Crawford facts

5 most recent films

Strait-Jacket - 3.0 stars
Johnny Guitar - 3.5 stars
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane - 4.0 stars
The Best of Everything - 2.5 stars
The Story of Esther Costello - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Women - 4.0 stars
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane - 4.0 stars
Mildred Pierce - 4.0 stars
Johnny Guitar - 3.5 stars
The Damned Don't Cry - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Dancing Lady - 3 stars
Our Dancing Daughters - 2.0 stars
The Story of Esther Costello - 2.0 stars
The Best of Everything - 2.5 stars
Strait-Jacket - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Walter Huston - 2 times - show films
Greta Garbo - 1 times - show films
Rossano Brazzi - 1 times - show films
Roddy McDowall - 1 times - show films
Jack Carson - 1 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Lewis Milestone - 2 times - show films
Jean Negulesco - 2 times - show films
Vincent Sherman - 1 times - show films
Curtis Bernhardt - 1 times - show films
William Castle - 1 times - show films